At least 90 housing units in Barangay Antipolo, Medellin have been committed for turn over for Yolanda victims before December 1 this year. Project Engineer Elizer dela Paz of RFN Construction and Development Corp., the project contractor,…
Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Michael Dino has ordered the contractor of a relocation site for families displaced by Supertyphoon “Yolanda” in Daanbantayan town, northern Cebu, to turn over housing units to the beneficiaries before the end…
A most fitting way to remember the most talked about Super Typhoon Yolanda three years after is the coffee table book “Haiyan the Aftermath: Images and Stories of Recovery in Samar and Leyte” written by Lucien Y.…
Government agencies have completed 74 percent of all Yolanda rehabilitation projects in Central Visayas after three years, but an official of the regional National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA-7) said a lot remains to be done. Based…
CEBU Gov. Hilario Davide III is encouraging the National Housing Authority to fast track their housing projects for Super Typhoon Yolanda victims. Davide made the call since three years has passed and the resettlement projects had yet…
As typhoon Lawin (Haima) began to intensify into a supertyphoon yesterday afternoon, public agencies in Central Visayas advised government personnel to be on alert, ready to respond to serious problems that may arise today in provinces of…
Better safe than sorry. Although Cebu is not in the path of Super Typhoon “Lawin” (international name: Haima), local disaster and law enforcement authorities yesterday geared up for an intense weather disturbance that was bearing down fast…
At least 30,000 food packs are ready for distribution by the social welfare office in Central Visayas in case of contingencies in the region. Artemia Degamo, Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7) social…
Most of the vessels whose trips were cancelled due to typhoon Karen were allowed to sail yesterday, according to PO3 George Monel of the Philippine Coast Guard-Visayas. One of the vessels, Manila-bound passenger vessel MV Pope John…
More than two thousand passengers were stranded at the Cebu port after the Philippine Coast Guard Cebu station prevented two vessels from Cagayan de Oro bound for Manila from sailing due to strong winds and waves brought…
Strong winds and waves stranded nine vessels at Cebu City’s ports. The Philippine Coast Guard Cebu station said 2,097 persons were unable to leave for their trips. The passengers of MV St. Francis Xavier and MV St.…
IT’S cloudy skies with a high chance of thunderstorms for Cebu this week, the state weather bureau Pagasa said yesterday. Al Quiblat, Pagasa Mactan office chief, said Cebu will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with thunderstorms…
